History Awesome / MysteryScienceTheater3000

* At the end of The Gauntlet, Jonah turns the tables on the Mads in a way Joel and Mike could only dream of, building a theater in their own base and trapping them in it, all while putting on a perfect act of being mentally crushed by the six movie marathon so that they never suspected a thing. Plus, the implication is that the next season is going to be Felicia Day and Patton Oswalt doing the riffing, and everyone can get behind that. For more perspective: Joel escaped his own Mads thanks to a plan by Gypsy he was clueless about, and Mike escaped thanks to a total accident he also had nothing to do with, and all those Mads were still left free and clear to do it again if they wanted. Jonah, on the other hand, straight-up ''defeats'' Kinga and Max and leaves them stuck in the hell they created. Quite a comeback from seeming to be ignominiously killed at the end of the last season.
* Kinga finally figures out how Netflix works, and ''weaponizes'' it, making Jonah and the bots sit through "The Gauntlet," binge-watching six bad movies back-to-back-to-back. She also credits herself for "binge-producing" an entire season, and finally, with this relentless assault, succeeding where previous generations of Forresters failed (but see above for how that really turned out). Though she also seems to expect the audience will be similarly forced to do nothing but watch the entire season in one sitting; clearly, she still doesn't quite understand exactly how Netflix works.
* Kingachrome. A pretty ludicrous concept; movies in liquid format. It's got drawbacks that make it basically useless. However, the idea of movies recorded in liquid gives the latest iteration of [=MST3K=] a character unique from previous ones, with bubbly "static" and movies being "flushed" up to the [=SoL=]. And finally, Kinga (actually Synthia) manages to invent a way to use the Kingachrome so you can drink it and play audio. Her plans to market it to soft drink companies would actually be a huge money maker. . . imagine taking a swig of your favorite soft drink and then being able to play your favorite Music/{{Queen}} song just by opening your mouth. Awesome.

* Kinga might just succeed where all her predecessors' failed: Breaking the host and the Bots. The trailer shows their real fear in having to go six movies in a row and some of the riffing shown in the trailer consists of screams, sobs, and maniacal laughter. Intercut with that are quick flashes of some truly bonkers Host Segments. Sometimes it really is about quantity over quality.
** And sure enough, at the end of ''Ator, The Fighting Eagle'', the finale of "The Gauntlet", [[spoiler:[[BaitAndSwitch Kinga and Max got played]]: Jonah and the Bots ''faked'' being broken so that they could get put on a shuttle heading for Earth. Meanwhile, they had done some modifications to the movie vault in Moon 13, [[HoistByHisOwnPetard locking Kinga and Max in a movie theater, doomed to the same exact punishment Jonah and the bots were forced into]]]].
* Netflix, a company which typically zealously guards all their original programs and refuses to let them be seen anywhere outside their own website, allowed ''Film/CryWilderness'' to be part of the 2018 Turkey Day Marathon. That's some major AdoredByTheNetwork they've got.

** The campaign's final total, for those interested, was $6,364,229 ($5,764,229 from the Kickstarter plus an additional $600k from outside donations). That total means the ''[=MST3K=]'' Kickstarter is (for now) the most successful crowdsourced video project ever.

* The Gauntlet includes Creator/TheAsylum mockbuster ''Film/AtlanticRim''. For those who don't know, The Asylum's primary source of distribution was through what would eventually become the Creator/SyFy Channel, aka the channel where the original MST3k met its end due to ExecutiveMeddling. Revenge is sweet.

* Creator/ShoutFactory declared in their press release regarding the release rights for the show that they would release ''every single episodes on DVD'', legal difficulties in securing the film rights be damned. It seemed like it was all talk at the time. Then they secured the rights to, and subsequently released, ''all of the'' Franchise/{{Gamera}} ''episodes.'' [[note]]The ''Gamera'' movies are currently out of print, but Shout is working on the rights issues.[[/note]]

* "Every Country Has a Monster," typically cited as the major WinTheCrowd moment for the revival. It's especially impressive as Jonah had to keep track of all the models on the counter while singing, and he even manages to keep going after accidentally knocking a bunch of them over. The following season even openly calls it out as a ToughActToFollow.

** And sure enough, at the end of ''Ator, The Fighting Eagle'', the finale of "The Gauntlet", [[spoiler:[[BaitAndSwitch Kinga and Frank got played]]: Jonah and the Bots ''faked'' being broken so that they could get put on a shuttle heading for Earth. Meanwhile, they had done some modifications to the movie vault in Moon 13, [[HoistByHisOwnPetard locking Kinga and Frank in a movie theater, doomed to the same exact punishment Jonah and the bots were forced into]]]].

** And sure enough, at the end of ''Ator, The Fighting Eagle'', the finale of "The Gauntlet", [[spoiler:[[BaitAndSwitch Kinga and Frank got played]]: Joel and the Bots ''faked'' being broken so that they could get put on a shuttle heading for Earth. Meanwhile, they had done some modifications to the movie vault in Moon 13, [[HoistByHisOwnPetard locking Kinga and Frank in a movie theater, doomed to the same exact punishment Jonah and the bots were forced into]]]].

* At the end of The Gauntlet, Jonah turns the tables on the Mads in a way Joel and Mike could only dream of, building a theater in their own base and trapping them in it, all while putting on a perfect act of being mentally crushed by the six movie marathon so that they never suspected a thing. Plus, the implication is that the next season is going to be Felicia Day and Patton Oswalt doing the riffing, and everyone can get behind that.

* "Every Country Has a Monster," typically cited as the major WinTheCrowd moment for the revival. It's especially impressive as Jonah had to keep track of all the models on the counter while singing, and he even manages to keep going after accidentally knocking a bunch of them over.

* Netflix, a company which typically zealously guards all their original programs and refuses to let them be seen anywhere outside their own website, allowed "Cry Wilderness" to be part of the 2018 Turkey Day Marathon. That's some major AdoredByTheNetwork they've got.

* The Gauntlet includes Creator/TheAsylum mockbuster ''Atlantic Rim''. For those who don't know, The Asylum's primary source of distribution was through what would eventually become the Creator/SyFy Channel, aka the channel where the original MST3k met its end due to ExecutiveMeddling. Revenge is sweet.

* The final movie of The Gauntlet is none other than ''Film/AtorTheFightingEagle'', whose sequel ''Film/CaveDwellers'' was riffed all the way back in Season 3. This is something that's been coming for ''twenty-seven years''.

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* In a deleted scene Mike is slowly suffocating because the air supply has been cut off and the bots save him in the most awesome way possible. First of all Crow lifts a freaking ''ten ton molybdenum rod'' to save him, while Tom flies (not hovers, flies -- he ''hurls'' himself across the room), all ending with Gypsy giving Mike mouth to mouth.
** Only compounded by the fact that the only copies of this scene widely available were recorded off a screen at a convention. At the point Servo takes flight (screaming "I'M COMIIIING!"), the entire room explodes into wild cheering and applause.
** And some [[ExecutiveMeddling jackass movie executive]] told The Brains to cut this scene out, despite all the hard work that had been put into it.
* ''Heckling the credits'' adds a new layer of metafiction to the usual Mystery Science Theater 3000 format. No movie shall be spared... ''not even their own.''
--> '''Crow''' ''(indignantly):'' "Puppet handler"?! There weren't any puppets in this movie!

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* ''Heckling the credits'' adds a new layer of metafiction to the usual Mystery Science Theater 3000 format. No movie shall be spared... ''not even thier own.''

* On Thanksgiving 2013, Shout Factory ran an [=MST3K=] Turkey Day marathon on YouTube, showing six episodes that fan consensus agreed were an awesome selection: ''Space Mutiny'', ''I Accuse My Parents'', ''Werewolf'', ''Cave Dwellers'', ''The Final Sacrifice'', and ''Mitchell''.

** One bumper had Joel hoping Joe Don Baker--the star of ''Mitchell'' and a man famed for hating ''[=MST3K=]''--was having a happy Thanksgiving.

* In 2015, Joel launched a {{Website/Kickstarter}} for a reboot of the show. Within a week, it was $500,000 above its original $2 million minimum, which meant three full brand-new episodes. But the awesome did not stop there. With less than three hours left before the Kickstarter campaign ended, the fandom rallied together and pushed the grand total to ''nearly six million dollars'', which allowed the revival's first season to be ''a full thirteen episode season''. It made more money than the Kickstarter for ''Series/ReadingRainbow'', and it didn't even need Creator/SethMacFarlane's help!

** In a promotion for the new series, Jonah and the bots tear into [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkOMAQAcBKE the first two minutes of Stranger Things]]

* The revival has a sterling 100% "Fresh" Critic's Rating on Rotten Tomatoes and a similarly impressive 93% "Fresh" viewer rating.
* After months of suspense given Netflix's usual fast notices on whether their new shows will be renewed, in classic MST fashion the show was announced to be getting a 12th season in their Turkey Day marathon.

* In 2015, Joel launched a Kickstarter for a reboot of the show. Within a week, it was $500,000 above its original $2 million minimum, which meant three full brand-new episodes. But the awesome did not stop there. With less than three hours left before the Kickstarter campaign ended, the fandom rallied together and pushed the grand total to ''nearly six million dollars'', which allowed the revival's first season to be ''a full thirteen episode season''. It made more money than the Kickstarter for ''Series/ReadingRainbow'', and it didn't even need Creator/SethMacFarlane's help!

** The campaign's final total, for those interested, was $6,364,229 ($5,764,229 from the KickStarter plus an additional $600k from outside donations). That total means the ''[=MST3K=]'' Kickstarter is (for now) the most successful crowdsourced video project ever.

* ''Heckling the credits'' adds a new layer of metafiction to the usual Mystery Science Theater 3000 format. No movie shall be spared... ''not even our own.''

* One truly great moment comes after the short ''[[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S03E15TeenageCaveman Catching Trouble]]''. The short is about a man named [[EvilPoacher Ross Allen]] who catches animals for zoos and to sell as exotic pets, and it's one of the most uncomfortable shorts featured on [=MST3K=] thanks to all the scenes of animals crying in fear, being manhandled, tossed into a bag, and stolen away from their families and homes. So what do Joel and the Bots decide to do after watching this display of animal cruelty? They get out their dolls and film a skit called [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbA6YwzzK30 "Catching Ross",]] involving [[JustDesserts nature taking revenge on Ross Allen.]]

* One truly great moment comes after the short ''[[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S03E15TeenageCaveman Catching Trouble]]''. The short is about a man named Ross Allen who catches animals for zoos and to sell as exotic pets, and it's one of the most uncomfortable shorts featured on [=MST3K=] thanks to all the scenes of animals crying in fear, being manhandled, tossed into a bag, and stolen away from their families and homes. So what do Joel and the Bots decide to do after watching this display of animal cruelty? They get out their dolls and film a skit called "Catching Ross" involving nature taking revenge on Ross Allen.